Years ago I had a friendly discussion with Ariel Sharon. I told him: "I am first of all an Israeli. After that I am a Jew." He responded heatedly: "I am first of all a Jew, and only after that an...
https://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2018/08/07/who-are-the-israelis/
One can look at events in Gaza through the left or through the right eye. One can condemn them as inhuman, cruel and mistaken, or justify them as necessary and unavoidable. But there is one adjec...
https://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2018/07/20/israelis-just-keep-killing-people-stealing-land/
In the late 1980s, my secretary told me that the Deputy Chief of Staff wanted to see me. That was rather surprising. The army command was not on friendly terms with my paper, Haolam Hazeh. For do...
https://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2018/07/06/ehud-barak-best-of-a-bad-lot/
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British throne, visited Israel this week. He seems a likable person. He looked like a prince should look, did all the right things, said a...
https://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2018/06/29/princely-visits/
After commenting on most of the episodes on the first Israeli Prime Ministers in Raviv Drucker’s TV series The Captains, I must come back to the one whose episode I have not yet covered: Yitzha...
https://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2018/06/15/when-rabin-tried-to-make-peace/
It’s frightening. Unprincipled psychologists, in the service of a malignant regime, use sophisticated techniques in order to control the mind of a person from afar. The term "brainwashing" was ...
https://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2018/06/08/the-brainwashing-of-the-israelis/
Oh, Gaza. Strong as death is love. I loved Gaza. That is a play on words. The Biblical Song of Songs says that love is strong as death. Strong in Hebrew is Aza. Aza is also the Hebrew name of Gaz...
https://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2018/06/01/love-is-as-strong-as-death/
We all know the picture from the books and the movies: a gambler sits at the roulette table in a casino. He has luck. A lot of luck. In front of the gambler the pile of chips is growing. Higher a...
https://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2018/05/25/the-luck-of-the-gambler/
On Bloody Monday last week, when the number of Palestinian killed and wounded was rising by the hour, I asked myself: what would I have done if I had been a youngster of 15 in the Gaza Strip? My ...
https://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2018/05/21/the-day-of-shame/
Write down: I, Uri Avnery, soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, hereby dissociate myself from the army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their comm...
https://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2018/04/16/israelis-kill-unarmed-protesters-barely-notice/